7-2 FRUIT iMRDEN. 



The Qunningham Grajoe is a native of Prince Ed- 

 ward's County, Virginia. The. berries are of medium 

 size, round, black, and not subject to rot. Their taste 

 is said to resemble that of the Nigrillo of Madeira. 

 It is a good table and promising wine grape. 



The Woodson is another Virginia variety, from 

 Prince Edward's County, and is recommended as a 

 very proper fruit for the production of a sparkling 

 wine. It yields abundantly, but ripens late. 



There are still other varieties ^of native American 

 grapes, enjoying more or less local or general celebrity. 

 Amon^ these are the Tasker, and the Schuylkill, which 

 diflfer but little from each other. 



At the meeting of the National Congress of Fruit- 

 growers, held in New York, in 1849, the grapes re- 

 commended as of the first quality and best adapted to 

 culture in the United States, were {under glass) Black 

 Hamburg, Black Prince, Black Frontignac, Grizly 

 Frontignan, White Frontignan, White Muscat of Alex- 

 andria, and Chasselas de Fontainebleau ; and' of native 

 Grapes adapted to the open air, the Isabella and the 

 Catawba. 



The Diana, a seedling from the Catawba, has been 

 brought forward lately as a native American grape of 

 the first class. 



The cbief aim of those who seek grapes adapted to 

 wine-making is to obtain such as at maturity possess 

 sufficient sugar in their juice to render the addition of 

 either sugar or alcohol unnecessary for the future 

 stages of the wine. 



The Catawba is, according the Cincinnati authorities, 

 the only grape yet found in the U. S. which fulfils this 

 great desideratum. Good wine is often made from other 



